John Keats

“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

— John Keats

“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”

— John Keats

“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

— John Keats

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

— John Keats

“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”

— John Keats

“Love is my religion - I could die for it.”

— John Keats

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”

— John Keats

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

— John Keats

“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

— John Keats

“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”

— John Keats

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”

— John Keats

“There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.”

— John Keats

“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”

— John Keats

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

— John Keats

“You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”

— John Keats

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”

— John Keats

“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”

— John Keats

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

— John Keats

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

— John Keats

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

— John Keats